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Will culture lessons be good for schools?

This is merely throwing pearls before swine.

It is aimed at the poorest kids, but these tend not to appreciate “culture” as the parents need to be interested as well, think of Billy Elliott.

I can just see a poor boy coming home and explaining to his chav macho dad, with gold chains, ear studs, bald head, tattood all over, American pit bull on his lap with studded collar, that he just loves opera and ballet and wants to be a male ballet dancer and could he buy him ballet tights and shoes.
Totally Disgruntled, Wokingham

I tried to think of “Billy Elliot” but then I got confused and wasn’t sure if I was thinking of “Brassed Off”, “Bend It Like Beckham” or some other clockwork tale of “heartwarming” batshit in the face of adversity.

Anyway, everybody’s different and things might not go as you expect. Perhaps they’d discover a massive emerald hidden inside a statue but then the baddies would catch them and it’d get eaten by a crocodile but then he’d kill the crocodile and make it into shoes and buy a yacht (think of “Romancing the Stone”). Maybe his father would employ a lot of Jews and help them escape the gas chamber (think of “Schindler’s List”). Maybe his father would turn out to have an alien incubating in his chest (think of “Alien”). Or maybe the son would make it as a ballet dancer and, later, his father would go to see him star in “Swan Lake” (think of that “Billy Elliot” film you seem to believe is actually real life and still managed to miss the point, predictable and glaring to someone who’s never even seen the fucking thing, that everything works out just swell in the end). Dullard.